"processes light" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe how the eye converts light into signals that can be interpreted by the brain, for example: "The human eye processes light, thereby allowing us to interpret the world around us."
One passage that compares ants to humans in an attempt to understand how the brain processes light rays ends like this: "In any case we shall never find out how chemical rays appear to ants.
In the world of the weighty fabulist, the novel's initial revelation might have come from a diary or a packet of letters, but what brings Glyn's world down around his ears is something nearly weightless, a moment captured in time by a machine that indifferently processes light -- a snapshot or, as Glyn calls it, a "freeze-frame revelation".
For while some causal processes (light radiation, inertial motion) are self propagating, others are not.
In a normal retina, an enzyme cascade is activated when the retina processes light, and a second set of biochemical reactions takes place when the cells rest.
From the perspective of an energy cycle, photosynthesis can be divided into three energy conversion processes: light harvesting, electron transfer, and carbon fixation.
Moreover, it is also a semiconductor, processes light response, has photochemical characteristics, and can be used as a material for supercapacitors [4, 5].
It will be highly beneficial to control protein levels in biotechnological or biomedical applications and offers the potential to render a plethora of biological processes light-switchable.
These findings suggest that Cluster N processes light-dependent magnetic compass information in night-migrating songbirds.
Two recent analyses have identified some of the key genes that regulate these processes, lighting up the highway to normal mammary gland development.
He found that when coral is heated, the algae lose their ability to process light.
These refineries have suffered because the type of crude oil they process — light, sweet crude from the Atlantic — happens to be the most expensive.
